The Offshore Voyage

Offshore Journey is a semi-autobiographical romance about growing up in the real world. It follows the heroine, Xu Luo, through her childhood spent drifting from place to place, her studies abroad, and her struggle to survive on her own. It tells of a young woman torn between family affection, friendship, and imperfect love as she finds her way forward and grows.

Amid all her hardships, she has found kindness, yet she has also pushed safe harbors away with her own hands.

Love is a brief place to rest along the way, but her destination is a life forever adrift offshore.

Chapters 1-7 serve as a prequel, laying the groundwork for the heroine's early life, and the pace is relatively slow. The main story officially begins in Chapter 8.

Theme: A record of a lifetime spent adrift offshore. Through farewells, heartbeats, and disappointments, she keeps shaping herself, until she finally learns to accept the past and hold fast to her true self amid an unpredictable fate.